The Ministry of Interior in the State of Israel is one of Government offices that responsible among the rest for the local rule, the subject of citizenship and residency, teudot zehut's issue, entry visas' publishing and visas for stying in the country, also the minestry of interior responsible for all the subject of the personal registering in the country.

Responsibility Fields

• Providing citizenship and resident status.
• Issuing of entry visas and staying visas in the country.
• Inhabitants administration: personal registerations.
  • Issuing of card.
  • Personal registerations such as birth, marriage etc.
• Issuing of license for carrying weapon.
• Local government, city councils and local councils supervision.
• Elections.
• Fire fighting and Rescuing comissionership and emergency services.
• Associations.
• Planning and building supervising.

Staff Wings

The Administration for Local Government and Administration

• Administration for Budgeting and Developing in the Local Authorities.
• Wing for Inspection in the Local Authorities.
• Administration of Planning.
• Administration of Population.
• Administration for Emergency Services and Special Tasks.
• Commissionership of Fire-Fighting and Rescuing.
• National Elections' Supervisor.
• National Unit for Building Supervising.
• Administraion of Water.

Importance

The duty of the interior minister has been always a desirable duty in every government in the history of Israel, and the reason for that is that the Ministry of Interior has many authorities and much intensirt, particularly in designing the figure of the State of Israel.

Responsible for the population administration, the Ministry of Interior responsible for the personality registerations and dcides who can immigrate to Israel in the framework of the of Return, and who can become a citizen in the framework of the Rule of Citizenship. In addition, the Ministry of Interior controls the status of permanent residents and issues visas to foreign workers. Due to that, and due to its authorities in the subjects of religion and state, the Ministry of Interior has became the main destination of parties whose platform has a main part with these subjects {NRP, Shas, Israel Ba-Aliya, Shinui) that see the Ministry of Interior a target and an excellent implement for executing their ideological outlooks in those subjects.

For the last years the Ministry of Interior has been attacked for its policy regarding foreign workers, while many complaints about its arbitrariness regarding them.

In addition, The Ministry of Interior supervises all the local councils and due to that it has the power to appoint many workmen. A part of the Interior ministers used that for appointing faithful men and giving jobs to the party center.

List of Interior Ministers

External Links

• Interior Ministry site

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